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Saint Patrick is said to have fasted for forty days on Croagh Patrick. It is from here that he is said to have banished a flock of evil black birds as well as the serpents of Ireland (a hollow to the north of the summit named Lugnademon commemorates this story). This explains its significance as a place of pilgrimage, though it was already sacred in pagan times, being a Lughnasa site [see MacNeill, 71-84]. Locally Croagh Patrick is called ‘The Reek’, a variant of the word ‘rick’ (i.e. a hayrick or haystack). ‘Cruach’ has the same meaning. In pagan times the mountain was known as Cruachán Aigle or Cruachán Garbrois. Garbros seems to be a place-name for the locality.
Croagh Patrick is the highest mountain in the Croagh Patrick area and the 66th highest in Ireland.Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/65/

From a good distance at Mallaranny and so free from its rubbish and excessive religiosity Croagh Patrick can look magnificent.
This picture was taken from in May one year from some 18km away. Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/65/comment/17986/